Amy B. Harris Launches Every Year After With June 8 Tribeca Premiere
Every Year After will world premiere at the Tribeca Film Festival on June 8, then debut on Prime Video a couple of days later. The eight-episode series turns Carley Fortune’s Every Summer After into a festival-first TV rollout, with Amy B. Harris steering the adaptation after being brought in by Amazon MGM Studios.
Harris moved quickly once she got the book. She received it on a Thursday, read it within 24 hours, and decided by Saturday that she was in on the project. That speed fits a series built around a romance readers already know well: Every Summer After spent 16 weeks on bestseller list after its 2022 publication.
Amy B. Harris Takes the Reins
Harris said she was drawn to the material’s emotional engine, describing her response as, “I was so immersed in the world that Carley had built and Sam and Percy’s love story, and the feeling of optimism and second chances,”. She also said the goal was “to honor the book and the characters and then expand it, so it could be a series that could go on for years to come.”
That is the real commercial play here: the adaptation is not being treated as a one-off title drop. By pairing a Tribeca premiere with a quick Prime Video release, the series gets the prestige bump of a festival launch and the reach of a streaming debut inside the same window.
Barry's Bay Returns On Screen
Sadie Soverall plays Persephone Percy Fraser, with Matt Cornett as Sam, Michael Bradway as Charlie Florek and Elisha Cuthbert as Sue. Aurora Perrineau also appears as Chantal. The story follows Percy through summers at her family’s cottage in Barry’s Bay, where she befriends Sam and Charlie before her friendship with Sam gradually becomes a romance.
Years later, Percy returns for Sue’s funeral, and the exes confront their decade-long estrangement. Carley Fortune said she saw the casting process as a turning point, noting, “I was shown the chemistry tapes, which were unreal, and there was no point at which I felt like, ‘No, not this person.’”
Ten-Minute Chemistry Tests
Fortune also said the producers gave each pairing of actors 10 minutes to get to know each other during separate breaks in chemistry testing, a small detail that points to how tightly the show’s central triangle was managed before cameras rolled. She added, “The fact that we have a Percy, a Sam and a Charlie that look somewhat like their characters—that’s not something that was important to me, [but] it’s cool that they’re quite alike.”
The retitled Every Year After now has a clear release path and a built-in audience from the novel’s 2022 run. For viewers, the practical result is simple: the festival premiere comes first, and the streaming debut follows within days, putting the series in front of both industry attendees and Prime Video subscribers almost immediately.
